Family Help Lead Practitioner - Social Worker

• Role: Qualified Social Worker (Duty, Assessment & Family Help)

• Service: Newly Formed Family Help Service

• Location: Tameside Council (Hybrid Working)

• Pay Rate: £39.00 per hour

• Contract: Full-Time, Ongoing Interim Contract

Tameside Council is launching its pioneering Family Help Service and is seeking dynamic, resilient Family Help Lead Practitioners to join their integrated Duty, Assessment, and Family Help teams.

As a Lead Practitioner, you will actively champion Tameside's core practice values, ensuring they are central to everything you do:

• Compassion: Deeply understanding the lived experiences of children and families.

• Curiosity: Asking the right questions to unlock deeper insights and better outcomes.

• Collaboration: Partnering across services to deliver completely joined-up support.

• Conversation: Listening and engaging meaningfully with families and professionals alike.

• Courage: Making bold, compassionate, child-first decisions.

Operating within a fast-paced, community-focused environment, your daily duties will include:

• Frontline Assessment & Triage: Undertaking initial statutory enquiries, child-in-need assessments, and complex risk evaluations within the community.

• Child Protection (Section 47): Leading on Section 47 enquiries where children are deemed to be at risk of significant harm, initiating emergency child protection procedures, and working alongside legal and management teams when statutory orders are required.

• High-Intensity Family Support: Delivering robust, planned family support and crisis-response interventions directly to families to prevent breakdown and safely keep children within their family units.

• Caseload Management: Managing a complex Child in Need (CIN) caseload, chairing review meetings, and providing both support and healthy challenge to help families embed long-term, sustained change.

• Multi-Agency Partnerships: Building strong working networks with voluntary and statutory partners while maintaining impeccable, audit-ready electronic case records.

• Professional Registration: Must be a Qualified Social Worker with an active, valid Social Work England registration.

• Frontline Competency: Strong post-qualifying experience within statutory Duty & Assessment, Child Protection, or frontline Safeguarding environments.

• Community Autonomy: Confidence working independently within the community, completing lone-working home visits, and managing competing crisis priorities.

• Analytical Writing: Proven ability to produce high-quality statutory assessments and internal/external legal reports under tight timescales.

• Excellent Remuneration: A highly competitive hourly rate of £39.00 per hour.

• A Modern Service Design: The opportunity to escape traditional, siloed social work and practice within a progressive, preventative family support model.

• Professional Evolution: Full access to Tameside's continuous professional development (CPD), specialist training, and highly supportive management framework.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

experience

Children services

skills

be able to manage challenging situations

qualifications

university

education

BA in social work